Abraham Lincoln outlawed business with the Confederate States during the Civil War.
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A total of 662 Charlie Chaplin lookalikes gathered at the Chaplin Museum in Vevey, Switzerland.
Kendrick Lamar became the first rapper to win Pulitzer Prize.
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.
The Argentinian city of Salta was founded as an outpost between Buenos Aires, Peru, and Lima.
The Holy Roman Empire appointed a new supreme military commander, Albrecht von Wallenstein.
